Lost Admiral Returns

Type of Program: Naval Strategy
Supported Platforms: Win98/ME/NT/XP/2000
Company Name: Fogstone Games
Version: 1.1
Price: $29.95
Installed Size: 42.7 Mb

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During the installation you are told that this is a 30 day trial version. You are allowed to place the program files anywhere you want.

This is one of those games that you really have to do the tutorial to be able to figure out how to play the game. As you probably can tell by the name of the game, this is a game involving naval warfare. There are two sides red and yellow and you get to pick between a number of scenarios at the beginning of each game.

It is a turn based game. You try to outmaneuver your opponents for control of coastal cities using battleships, destroyers, submarines, and other ships.

This is from the tutorial:

In LAR (Lost Admiral Returns) , battles are fought between the Red Player and Yellow Player for a specific number of turns. Your goal is to earn enough Victory Points to defeat your opponent by the end of the battle. This goal is listed as a percent of your opponent's VP Total that you must make. I.E. score VPs of your own equal to 130% of your opponents to win on a map and start setup that favors you.

You will have only a certain number of turns to achieve this score ratio (or better) in. Each game will have a setup stage, and then turns broken down into phases as follows:

Red Movement Phase - red moves all their ships as desired.
Combat Phase - both sides get to fire their ships once.
Yellow Movement Phase - Yellow gets to move their ships now.
Combat Phase - again both sides get to fire their ships once.
City Ownership Phase - Ownership of cities is given to players who are the only one to have a Transport type ship in that city harbor. The owning players earn Victory Points for that city, along with resources, and will get to repair any of their own damaged ships in that harbor, removing up to 2 points of damage.
That ends the turn, and the next turn starts with Red Movement again.

Ok so here is the reality of all this. Lost Admiral Returns is for someone who really wants to get into a real naval strategy situation. The author Thurston Searfoss is to be congratulated for making a thinking persons naval warfare game. You can get involved in all aspects of naval warfare including such things as scouting for enemy forces, repairing damaged ships, and neutralizing enemy cities.

At the beginning you are assigned a rank, your rank improves based on the number of scenarios (maps) that you have conquered and how well you have played.

Once you really get in to the game you will make use of the online forums and be able to see how you stack up against other players by viewing the online High Score chart.

In conclusion if you have been looking for a naval strategy game to sink your teeth into, look no further, Lost Admiral Returns is the answer.

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Reviewed by Joe Tex

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